Anene: possible new witnesses found

Anene Booysen was raped and murdered at a building site in Bredasdorp in February 2013.

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Four potential witnesses who apparently were never interviewed by police may have information that could lead private investigators to identifying more suspects in the Anene Booysen rape and murder case.

And her family has welcomed the private probe because they believe Johannes Kana, 22, the only person convicted in the matter, could not have acted alone.

But provincial police commissioner Arno Lamoer said a proper investigation had been done.

Anene, 17, was raped, disembowelled and left for dead near a local pub in Bredasdorp early on February 2 last year.

She died later in Tygerberg Hospital after managing to say “Zwai and his friends” were behind the crimes.

Jonathan “Zwai” Davids, a friend of Booysen’s family, was arrested, but later released from custody because he could not be linked to the incident.

Last year, Kana, the only other suspect in the case, was sentenced to two life terms after being convicted of raping and killing her. He had pleaded guilty to raping and beating Anene, but not to killing her.

Kana’s legal representative, Pieter du Toit, said Kana’s family had since hired two private investigators he declined to name, to look into the case.